I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.